WIT Copy link • WITingenii acumen, or simply acumen (shrewdness, cleverness, quickness of intellect): dicacitas (in repartee, sharp sayings, etc.): lepos (neatness and elegance of diction): facetiae (humor, jocoseness): lepos facetiaeque: sal; plur., sales (pungency, smartness): sal et facetiae, breviter et commode dictum (a bon-mot): dicterium (a short and acute remark or saying). Low wit, facetiae scurriles: satirical wit, facetiae acerbae; sales acerbi: he has some wit, aliquid est in eo ingenii (Cic.): to have a ready wit, ingenium in numerate habere (Quint.): to be in one’s wits, sapere; animi or mentis compotem esse: to be out of one’s wits, desipere; delirare; insanire: to be at one’s wits’ end, ad incitas redigi. A man of wit, homo acri ingenio, ingeniosus, or acutus (clever): homo acutus, elegans, facetus (Cic., clever and humorous): jocosus (merry and jocose): dicax: scurra (a low jester). TO WIT, nempe: nimirum: scilicet. Vid: NAMELY.